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Markets Watchdog Rolls Over Amid Iran Insider Trading Allegations

By Ryan Bortโ€ขRolling Stone

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is supposed to oversee prediction markets, where traders are cashing in on Donald Trump's Iran announcements.

Last Saturday, while world markets were closed, President Donald Trump issued an incendiary threat to Iranian leaders: Open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours or the United States would โ€œobliterateโ€ฆ